Art critic defends child’s naked picture
Posted July 11th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comRobert Nelson, art critic with the magazine The Age, defends the use of naked pictures of his 6-year-old daughter in Art Monthly magazine.
But, as revealed by Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt in his blog this morning, Nelson has previously written of the specific sexuality of such pictures, arguing that “the sensuality of children is integral to parental fondness.
”In the essay — which features on the website of Nelson’s wife Polixeni Papapetrou, who took the pictures of Olympia — Nelson says some photographs taken of Olympia by his wife in 2000 when she was just two years old were taken “at the instigation” of their daughter: “‘Mummy, come and photo me,’ she would exhort.”
The “taboo” of such images is described as “the fear of the child’s latent sexuality and its potential for exciting inappropriate and sinful desire.”
